Senior UX Designer

Summary: The role of Senior UX Designer involves joining a public sector client for an initial 4-month contract, focusing on transforming digital services. The successful candidate will collaborate within an agile product team, producing user-centered designs and conducting user research. Responsibilities include providing design leadership and ensuring quality standards are met. The position requires extensive experience in UX design and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Produce designs based on insights delivered by UX research team members
• Work within an agile product team so that design work fits seamlessly into wider team workflow
• Provide a consistent experience to users by setting and working to appropriate quality standards, using an established design system
• Provide feedback and advice to wider design colleagues
• Plan, design and conduct user research when required, using appropriate strategies to test new ideas and concept development as well as usability testing
• Provide leadership and direction around the application of user-centred design, UX best practice and emerging trends

Key Skills:

• Extensive experience working in the field of UX design
• Proven experience in delivering design solutions to fast moving agile teams
• Experience in choosing and applying appropriate user-centred research methods
• Experience of working both independently and as part of a team, whilst balancing a range of competing priorities
• Experience of leading team meetings, webinars, events and/or conferences online
• Track record of working within project management environments, planning and organising a variety of tasks, including involvement in multiple projects and programmes of work

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Edinburgh

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: Senior

Industry: IT